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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 27, 1793
Page
4
London prices of stocks noted at one o clock with per cent changes and terms for navy, cantols and various tickets. Details include 9 per cent cantols and 9 half dir lovery tickets with values around 208.
This morning the mails arrived from Hovtano and Franpees, delivering foreign intelligence items. The sparse dispatch notes routine updates of overseas correspondence and unnamed reports.
Dutch forces moved camp from Ghent to a position toward Melle where the Hereditary Prince set up headquarters. The Palmer Statholder visited the camp and was welcomed with military honors. Casualties total 1850 killed with many wounded. Ghent hospital overfilled with the injured.
A Teulon letter excerpt describes the fall of two Convention commissioners after arrests and suicides. It lists several ships of the line in Coulon harbor and notes fire ships awaiting crisis use among the arranged squadrons.
A correspondent abroad reports rising terror in France as the Convention intensifies fear with a decree to detain all suspected since the Revolution. Prisons fill, abbeys prepare to receive prisoners, and plans to blow up houses are discussed. The Committee of Public Safety moves troops to seaports, while leaders arrive to oversee embarkation and violent measures.
A fragmentary report notes a movement to recall troops under Guycat Brirdin. Queen's trial not begun at departure of a key informant. M Destrevecchy arrested at Marcrose and taken to Havre. Danish-draped vessels laden with corn arrive daily. a ship carrying the informer escaped, placed in a fishing boat and brought to England.
Letters report Naples ordering the French ambassador and suite to leave, while New York gasps contradicts on American neutrality. The Congress meets yearly unless called, and states push strict neutrality as American funds rise. Commissions named to govern at Touton, with 12,000 troops sailing west. Various dispatches note English and French actions, troop movements, port preparations, and local celebrations amid the war.
Bath on September 27 reports Lord Sackville's Focus winning the Fifty Pounds Free Plate against Sir F. Poole's brown horse Mentor in a fine race. Major Brereton did not run his 100 guinea match due to drawing his horse while Mr. Baud's Crop walked over. Canterbury notes hops sale and crop yields with 46 acres producing 192 bags and a duty bet of 19,0001.
Boston reports a French privateer that sailed from the port on Saturday night last retired on Thursday and was laid up by order, as allegedly directed by the French Consul.
Transcribed dispatch from the Hereditary Prince of Onanartoghe dated September 26 1793 details actions on September 12 and 13 including a retreat hindered by ammunition wagon failures at Menin barrier. Proposes a new camp near Deinberghem with positions at Mellen and Gertrude. Official tally lists Dutch casualties and missing: 18 officers 131 ranks killed. 46 officers 399 ranks wounded. 33 officers 864 ranks missing. entire battalion of Lt. Col. Count Mohenlohe missing.
Report of a simulated engagement near Brighton where Howe's left wing with Westminster and South Devon regiments attacked two miles eastward. Lascellars and cavalry under the Prince of Waves formed the opposing British force. After two hours of maneuvers, heavy cannon fire and brisk flank attacks, the enemy advanced, the British retreated, and both sides finally withdrew to the camp as the day ended favorably for the exercise.
The report describes a skirmish where a force under Col Rena and Col. Rolle repelled an enemy assault on Brighton and the camp. Eight regiments of infantry with General Sir W. Howe led the attack, supported by four battalions of infantry, the Light Horse, and Mounted Artillery. Artillery prepared to move on Monday as the campaign began a possible break from camp.
The Jupiter Goodrich arrives from Jamaica after a theft incident with Admiral Gaswer. The Tartar Packet from Benal to London ran ashore in Bengal river and returned. Bergitha Maria Oredahl from Hare to Fredrickshal and Two Brothers Uppmap from Stockholm to Oporto, plus Two fra thers Forster from Islede Re to Bergen, put into Ramsgate damaged. Anna Magdalena Baflau a Ham burger from Charleston taken to Charleston. Betsey Howard bound for North Carolina by Sans Pareil. Belle Trott from Jamaica captured by Le Vanguir de Bastile and carried to Philadelphia.
Portsmouh September 26. Armed the Irrefistible man of War with guns Captain Harvey from the Downs with several vessels under her convoy and the Trinmer sloop of war Captain Cravan from a cruise.
Plymouth reports the Intrepid arrives from Torbay with the convoy bound for Ferrol and Corunna. The Diamed and Gorgon with 64 and 44 guns also sail with the Streights trade, all to rendezvous at Cape Sand Bay before proceeding to their destinations. The Channel Fleet will stay in Torbay while no completion date for sail is announced.
Portsmou th Sept 29 Arrived the Blessing Shipley Acorn Préstan and Sally Napper from Petersburgh Agath Phillipina Jacks from Dantzick Prince of Wales Randall from Jersey and Carolin Haywood from Charleston Sailed the Sheerness man of war 44 gun Hebe frigate 38 and Phoenix 36 003 cruize and a fleet of ships for the Downs.
Plymouth records arrival of the Palm tree Bee from Frederiksstad under Admiral de Ruiter with a Dutch fleet from Amsterdam led by Aldestoter Birch from Dantzick. Jay Dumy sails to New York as an Intrepid man of war with a fleet for Ferrol. The Diadem and Gorgon pass by with a fleet bound for the Straits.
A fragmentary London Gazette page lists theater listings at the Covent Garden and Derby, Lambeth church marriage announcements, obituaries including Lieutenant Jamies Wilson, Bath death of Edmund Probyn, shipping news with vessels sailing routes, and a stock prices snippet showing bonds and government securities.
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